Camp Freddy, the all-star cover band that has been gigging around
Los Angeles and New York since last year, will begin recording
their debut for Sanctuary Records next month. Mike Clink (Guns n'
Roses) is producing the album, which should see the light of record
stores next spring.

According to Camp Freddy ringleader Donovan Leitch, recording
commitments are in place from Macy Gray, Dave Navarro, Perry
Farrell, Kelly Osbourne and former Guns N' Roses members Slash and
Matt Sorum. The supergroup also features bassist Scott Ford and
former Cult guitarist Billy Morrison.

"We're covering all these glam and punk songs," says Leitch, who
tipped T-Rex's "20th Century Boy" and David Bowie's "Jean Genie" as
songs the band plans to record. Leitch says that Led Zeppelin's
"Whole Lotta Love" will be the first single. "It'll be Matt on
drums, Perry on vocals and Slash and Jimmy Page on guitar," he
says, noting that the Zep guitarist, also a Sanctuary artist, is
not formally locked in yet. "Slash is good friends with Page, so
we're thinking he will put in a call, too."

Leitch is also planning a DVD documenting the recording
sessions, which will convene at a heavily guarded studio built
underneath the Sunset Marquis Hotel in L.A., home away from home
for the likes of the Rolling Stones and U2. The hope is that some
notable hotel guests may pop in unexpectedly.

On stage, Camp Freddy has also starred Kid Rock, Moby, Robbie
Williams and the Stones' Ron Wood. "The shows would always end with
eight guitar players lined across the stage," Leitch says. "No one
could even hear what they were playing."